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The last of the sunflowers

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

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I won’t have sunflowers for much longer and it’s not due to our weather getting cooler. It’s because of a city bylaw notice.

Yesterday we got a notice from the city that we have one week to trim our sunflowers down to three feet as they are over grown and I suppose obstructing our driveway view. Well darn … we don’t use our driveway much – we only drive our car about once a week. Grrrr.

You can’t trim sunflowers, they die when you cut them in half … plus some of our sunflowers only have flowers at the top.

I guess I’ll be saying good bye to our flowers and the yellow finches that love to sit in them and eat the seeds.

This one reseeds itself well!

September 4, 2007 by Tricia

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I believe that this flower is called Scabiosa. I grew these flowers from seed about four or five years ago in my front garden beds and ever since then they come up on their own all over the place. Lets just say they are hardy and they reseed themselves quite well.

This one happens to be growing in one of my planters. I didn’t plant it, it just came up on it’s own. I’ve come to think of them as pretty weeds.

Sorry about the very late Green Thumb Sunday post. We had our big family reunion from Friday until Tuesday and I’m just now getting back to blogging. I’m also extremely tired!

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Trying to touch the sky

August 30, 2007 by Tricia

My rose, Breath of Life, is growing so well this year. It’s put out more new growth than in any of the previous years that I’ve been growing it.

This one rose appears to be stretching as far as it can to reach the sky. It must be about 7 feet tall.

Don’t you love it when the plants you grow do well? Whether it’s plants in your garden, vegetables or even house plants. When they do what they’re supposed to do it gives you a sense of accomplishment, doesn’t it?

Lush Clematis

August 26, 2007 by Tricia

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I grow this clematis at the front of the house. The name of the particular species of clematis isn’t coming to mind easily but I do have it written down. Somewhere.

Do you keep track of the names of the plants that are in your garden? I have so many plants that it’s getting harder to keep track, but I still try.

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Our little hummingbird

August 24, 2007 by Tricia

As some of you know I have a very nice garden. I’ve been working on it for five years. Unfortunately I’d only seen a hummingbird once in my garden – about two years ago. Ever since then I put in more flowers that hummingbirds like and added another hummingbird feeder to the garden.

Well I finally had some success. Last Sunday I was in the kitchen with my husband when I turned towards the kitchen window and Oh Oh Oh there was a beautiful little hummingbird trying to figure out how to get a drink from the hummingbird feeder.

These aren’t the best photos since I took them so quickly through a not so clean kitchen window, but here they are:

Approaching the feeders drink station:

Ready to have a drink? Or maybe about to leave?

Do you see hummingbirds in your yard? For all I know this one’s been visiting all summer and this is just the first time I’ve been lucky enough to see it.